{"id":3360,"date":"2023-07-21T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T03:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2023-07-21T22:22:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T03:22:48","slug":"the-exhibit-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/07\/the-exhibit-area\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exhibit Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv5343741522p2\" style=\"margin: 0in; background: white; outline: none !important; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 24px; word-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"outline: none !important;\"><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">Last week I attended a meeting of approximately two thousand Baptists.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">In the meeting area, participants were mostly of one mind, with a few exceptions.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">In the Exhibit Area, not so much of one mind.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">That\u2019s one reason I spend so much time in the Exhibit Area.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">Partly because we allow each church to be autonomous, we are nearly always a divided bunch. In the Exhibit Area we have booths representing every group of Baptists. Kind of like heaven?\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">Well, that might be a bit of a stretch. More like a family reunion, complete with those we love, and those we love but don\u2019t particularly like, and as always, the crazy Uncle. In the Exhibit Area I found friends, colleagues, and former students; persons with whom I agree and those with whom I disagree.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">But for a couple of days, we were family, and I loved it. Because I have friendship connections across all group lines, I am either a friend in all camps or an enemy in all camps, and I don\u2019t really care anymore.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">Some people hate to attend conventions.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">I love them &#8211; because I spend a lot of time in the Exhibit Area.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522apple-converted-space\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u201cSo, we,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"outline: none !important;\"><span class=\"yiv5343741522s2\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">being<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"outline: none !important;\"><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another\u201d (Romans 12:5).\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5343741522p1\" style=\"margin: 0in; background: white;\"><span class=\"yiv5343741522s1\"><span style=\"color: #1d2228;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I attended a meeting of approximately two thousand Baptists.\u00a0\u00a0In the meeting area, participants were mostly of one mind, with a few exceptions.\u00a0\u00a0In the Exhibit Area, not so much of one mind.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s one reason I spend so much time in the Exhibit Area.\u00a0\u00a0Partly because we allow each church to be autonomous, we are nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3361,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions\/3361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}